Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art published at a moment when

published at a moment when a fracturing republic clung to its founder's bloodline as proof of inheritance

The Expired Planet Victorian Lunar Death Portrait renders the Moon as a corpse on a slab — a selenographic study from the age when astronomers mapped lunar craters with the gravity of coroners

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

issued in the long shadow after the war

Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s-1930s) — greetings cards

Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art published at a moment whenMemorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892. A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox, when veterans' associations were busy carving granite and ink alike into the long elegy of remembrance, casting defeated soldiers as martyrs in the South's gathering myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National